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TIL If you hold in a fart too long it gets reabsorbed in the blood and directed to the lungs where it would be exhaled in your breath .

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ZlAG TIL a student at Harvard felt as his literature professor was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. After the paper only received a B- he decided to study something else. Years later he would write Jurassic Park.
EgQZ0 TIL many navies around the world through history have a ritual to "celebrate" crossing the equator as an initiation for those doing it for the first time.
GEQg TIL at 13, Molly Kelly an Aboriginal girl was forcibly removed from her family and sent to a government institution to become a domestic servant. She escaped and walked 1000 miles home across the outback. From 1905-1971 Australian authorities forcibly removed thousands of indigenous children
xRGo TIL British intelligence once executed “operation cupcake” to hack an online al-Qaeda magazine, replacing bomb making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.
vPaB7 TIL That during a duet between John Lennon and Chuck Berry on a 1972 episode of 'The Mike Douglas Show' the show's sound engineer cut off the mic of Yoko Ono who had been interrupting with incomprehensible wailing during a rendition of 'Memphis Tennessee'.